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3.34 Community Health and Well-Being (summary)

Published by City of Tempe | City of Tempe | Metadata Last Checked: August 11, 2025 | Last Modified: 2024-12-05T21:45:49.644Z
<div><div>This dataset comes from the Community Survey questions relating to the Community Health &amp; Well-Being performance measure: "With β€œ10” representing the best possible life for you and β€œ0” representing the worst, how would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?" and "With β€œ10” representing the best possible life for you and β€œ0” representing the worst, how do you think you will stand about five years from now?" – the results of both scores are then used to assess a Cantril Scale which is a way of assessing general life satisfaction.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>As per the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale, the three categories of identification are as follows:&nbsp;</div><div><ul><li>Thriving – Respondents rate their current life as a 7 or higher AND their future life as an 8 or higher.&nbsp;</li><li>Struggling – Respondents either rate their current life moderately (5 or 6) OR rate their future life moderately (5, 6, or 7) or negatively (0 to 4).&nbsp;</li><li>Suffering – Respondents rate their current life negatively (0 to 4) AND their future life negatively (0 to 4).&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>The survey is mailed to a random sample of households in the City of Tempe and has a 95% confidence level.</div></div><div><p style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px; margin-bottom:1.5rem; margin-top:0px;'><br />This page provides data for the Community Health and Well-Being performance measure.<br />&nbsp;</p><p style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px; margin-bottom:1.5rem; margin-top:0px;'>The performance measure dashboard is available at&nbsp;<a target='_blank' href='https://quality-of-life-tempegov.hub.arcgis.com/pages/community-health-and-wellbeing' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>3.34 Community Health and Well-Being</a>.</p></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><p style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px; margin-bottom:1.5rem; margin-top:0px;'><strong>Additional Information</strong></p><p style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size:16px; margin-bottom:1.5rem; margin-top:0px;'>Source:&nbsp;Community Attitude Survey (Vendor: ETC Institute)<br />Contact:&nbsp;Adam Samuels<br />Contact email:&nbsp;adam_samuels@tempe.gov<br />Preparation Method:&nbsp;Survey results from two questions are calculated to create a Cantril Scale value that falls into the categories of Thriving, Struggling, and Suffering.<br />Publish Frequency:&nbsp;Annually<br />Publish Method:&nbsp;Manual<br /><a target='_blank' href='https://tempe.gitbook.io/data-dictionary/3.34-community-health-and-well-being' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>Data Dictionary</a><br />&nbsp;</p></div>

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